Look at u. S. saudi arabia it relations. Then a review talks about the federal budget and government shut down. He says what he thinks the matter what it is. I think you have to be political in a certain way. If you have to be honest and say the same thing. You have to cater to people sometimes i think and know what they want and need to be able to influence and to vote for them. It is not being does on it. Know your going to help them with the. Season to, next week Lady Bird Johnson to roselyn cotter rosalyn carter. Next, a discussion on faith and the white house with current and former directors of the white house faithbased offices. Use met in dallas at as him southernmessages methodist university. Thank you for that kind introduction. Ladies and gentlemen, we at smu and the center for president ial history is honored to have you here with us this evening. I hope i can speak for all of us when i say it is an honor to have our five guests and panelists with us today. These five peopl
Having served from her perch at brookings as a key confidant and friend to both the first bush and the first obama f so calledaith czars and she has begun to develop exciting new faithbased partnerships and initiatives. God bless each of them and god bless resident george w. Bush and god bless president opera obama. Barack obama. I have been teaching at Ivy League Universities for more than 30 years. Having the key value of an Ivy League Professor which means i can speak for five minutes or two hours on any subject with no essential change in content. [laughter] before you hear from my betters on this religion, policy, and civic life. In the half dozen or so years that are seeded the establishment of the office, small but intellectually and ideologically and religiously diverse cadre of policy wonks and opinion leaders came together. What happened was that we trumpeted a fact, a fact that was hiding pretty much in plain view. Namely, the fact that americas urban churches come the synag
In his 2004 Democratic Convention speech, a speech that got me involved in politics. He said that we worship an awesome god in the blue states. Then there was his address to reverend jim walliss call to a renewal conference in 2006, a speech that i was honored to work with him in the Senate Office and he developed a template for how this president would engage issues. In that speech, then senator obama declared that, our failure as progressives to tap into the moral underpinnings of this nation is not just rhetorical. Our fear of getting preachy may also lead us to discount the role that values and culture play in some of our most urgent social problems. He went on to say individual churches are sponsoring day care programs, building senior centers, helping ex offenders reclaim their lives and rebuilding the gulf coast in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. And he concluded, the question is, how do we build on these partnerships between religious and secular people of goodwill . It wil
Mohawk tribe. Ogala sioux tribe. Osage nation. Pueblo tribe. Rosebud sioux tribe. [reading tribe names] mountain apache tribe. [applause] if you could all remained standing, will have the benediction. Ladies and gentlemen, the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats, and if our wonderful native americans who have received their medals, would like to retire to their seats, i will not make you stand while i talk. [laughter] i will say good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and while you might be taking your seats again, allow me to say [speaking native american language] and i beg your forgiveness if i did not decode my greetings and i cannot produce greetings for all of the tribes that we have here today. Mr. Speaker, leader harry reid, leader nancy pelosi, distinguished guests, honorees, guests and families, we are very proud of you, and im very proud to be included today. Here during native American Heritage month, i have the great privi
You. Congratulations on the book hostages no more the fight for education freedom and the fute of the american child. Lets start with the title of the book. How did you come up with the name hostages no more. Well first job great to be with you as well. Thanks. Thanks for doing this and the title is a provocative one and its meant to be has to just know more is a direct reference to a quote made by horace mann commonly considered the father of our Education System about 175 years ago. He said that educators are entitled to look upon parents as having given hostages to our cause and i think the last two years have really given families across the country a frontrow seat into how many ways their children really have been held hostage to a system that for too many of them is simply not working. And so this is a book about what we do to fix American Education and and that is thats the reason for the title and the subtitle about American Education freedom, which im sure were going to talk a